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What's So Terrible About Kids?

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idontunderstand:
I wouldn't be curious at all by someone saying "I don't want kids" or "I can't right now", but saying that you never want kids, ever, and going as far as getting surgery done to ensure you never get one even by mistake, is curious to me. They're little kids. You used to be one. They're not evil little imps. I'm not offended by it or anything, please note that, and I respect that people may be in situations which may never change, which may prevent them from ever having kids. Someone with OCD as bad as, say, Hanners, probably isn't suited for having kids and I could completely understand her saying she doesn't want them, ever.

So, not offended and I don't demand an explanation. I just don't understand it.

(but that's my name after all)

nekowafer:
I understand that I was once a kid, and I have no problem with kids overall. I just know that I never, ever ever ever, want to carry/birth a child.

If anyone is interested in reasons, well, I've had many health issues. Many of which are directly connected to my reproductive organs. But even if that weren't the case, being pregnant is really fucking difficult in so many ways. Besides the obvious, you'd be the center of attention, people would touch you, and you'd have to see doctors who would stick their hands up your cooch far too often.

And even besides those reasons, my family has a terrible history of diabetes, obesity, depression, anxiety, so on and so forth. I wouldn't want to make another kid go through what I have.

Carl-E:
And in all honesty, I have to agree with everything Neko has said.  Both the health issues (thought that's pretty much a dice roll, and people are more optimistic than they should be about rolling dice), and I can vouch for the thing about being pregnant. 

In the ninth month of my younger daughter's pregnancy, my wife (who carried a 10-lb fetus WAAAAAY out front), I made her a large button that answered everyone's first two questions;

1) Yes, I'm still pregnant. 

2) No, it's not twins. 

On the way to the scheduled caesarian, we stopped at the store so she could pick up a crossword puzzle book for during recovery, and the clerk asked, "Honey, when are you having that baby?"

My wife looked at the clock, and said, "In about an hour and a half."

idontunderstand:
It's perfectly understandable reasons. However...

Saying you don't want kids EVER is a bit like predicting the future to me. In a negative way. "I will never be a healthy person enough to have a kid". I understand someone may have chronic problems which prevent them but not all problems are impossible to work out.

I dunno, I guess it's just me but I don't think you should narrow down your opportunities so early in life as most of us are. We have pretty scarce opportunities as it is already.. I guess.

Carl-E:
Opinions / desires change over time.  One of the reasons that, unless you have severe health issues like Neko did, you wouldn't necessarily want to do anything irreversible.  But you should definitely respect your desires, and those of others as much as possible.  If you don't want kids for any reason, that's good enough, and people should respect that. 


Doesn't stop those of us who've had kids from sharing the grossest and most disconcerting things that happen with those of you who are easily squicked - we need to get our entertainment somewhere...

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